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The Fenreach Hauntings

A house can keep you. A guest must be invited.

Three houses built around fragments of one ruined abbey feed on acts of hospitality: setting a place, offering a bed and opening a door. Each woman must discover what she has welcomed before it learns to leave.

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The Fenreach Hauntings: the three covers of the pack

The concept

The houses are not alive in the ordinary sense, and their apparitions are not the dead people they resemble. A divided presence inhabits three old stone thresholds, borrowing familiar rituals to gain a place in human lives. In the first house, grief becomes an invitation to dinner. In the second, promised rest takes years from the sleeper. In the third, the survivors must stop the presence using a funeral gathering to acquire a body outside its walls. Coral Hart built this concept from the top-selling tropes and what's selling hot right now. Every book is read by a real human reader before it reaches you.

Three houses near inland FenreachOrison House, Vesper Hall and Wick Gate Lodge contain stones removed from the same ruined abbey. They have separate owners, histories and immediate human conflicts; no property company secretly controls all three.
A divided hungerThe presence imitates memory at Orison, borrows time at Vesper and seeks a living shape at Wick Gate. It is one source with three bounded abilities, not a creature that gains any power the plot needs.
Intended readershipAdult horror readers who want oppressive domestic atmosphere, intelligible supernatural rules, active female protagonists and endings that answer the central haunting while leaving an emotional cost.
Reader promiseEscalating dread, materially real supernatural events and decisive survival choices. Every house's immediate threat closes in its own book. The trilogy resolves the divided presence; it does not end by casually announcing that the same evil escaped after all.
Tone & contentDark, intimate and frightening. Adult deaths, bereavement, confinement, bodily ageing and some disturbing imagery. No sexual violence or child-victim set pieces. This is horror rather than romance; no romantic HEA or cozy safety is promised.

The people behind the promise

Maren Saye • 34An estranged daughter clearing her mother's house. She wants an apology badly enough to listen when the dining room begins speaking in a familiar voice.
Anouk Price • 41A sleep researcher taking a temporary residence at Vesper Hall. Exhausted by caring for her adult sister, she is vulnerable to the promise of rest without responsibility.
Seren Holt • 45A funeral celebrant invited to Wick Gate Lodge. She knows how to offer comfort without claiming to speak for the dead, until the house gives her the answer she most wants.
Enid Saye • deceasedMaren's mother. The real woman was loving, hurtful and unresolved. The presence's perfect version of her is a temptation, not a final correction of that history.
The first two survivorsMaren and Anouk carry useful knowledge and lasting losses into the third book. They can help Seren, but cannot make her crucial choice for her.

Series progression

  1. 01 / MemoryMaren has to choose between an impossible reconciliation and protecting the living.
  2. 02 / TimeAnouk is offered perfect rest, paid for with someone else's remaining life.
  3. 03 / ReleaseSeren has to decide between the person she misses most and the women who warn her not to let anyone through.

The three books

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Cover of The House Eats Last, book 1
Book 1 of three

The House Eats Last

Her mother never apologised. Now the empty chair speaks in her voice.

Maren Saye returns to Orison House to empty it. She does not intend to grieve a mother who spent their last conversation listing everything she had done wrong. Then she lays a second place at dinner out of habit, and somebody answers from the empty chair.

The voice is patient. Loving. Everything her mother could never quite be. Each evening it asks Maren to remember one more meal, one more person, one more reason she should stay. Outside the dining room, ordinary memories begin to blur.

When a visitor hears a different loved one speaking from the same chair, Maren understands that she has not brought her mother back. Something has learned what she is hungry for. Now it wants her to invite the living to dinner.

Story focusHaunted domestic ritual • estrangement and grief • a costly survival ending.
Place in the seriesMaren has to choose between an impossible reconciliation and protecting the living.
Cover of Every Bed a Grave, book 2
Book 2 of three

Every Bed a Grave

At Vesper Hall, you wake rested. Someone else wakes older.

Anouk Price knows what exhaustion can do to a person. Vesper Hall promises a month in which she can sleep without a telephone beside the bed or somebody calling her name. For the first time in years, she wakes feeling well.

Then another resident emerges from a single night with grey hair that was not there at supper. The housekeeper calls it an illness. Anouk begins to count the empty beds, the missed breakfasts and the people who are always described as having gone home.

There is a price for the hall's perfect rest. Anouk must discover who is paying it—and why somebody has begun making up a bed for her sister.

Story focusStolen time • deceptive sanctuary • an ensemble escape.
Place in the seriesAnouk is offered perfect rest, paid for with someone else's remaining life.
Cover of Never Open for the Living, book 3
Book 3 of three

Never Open for the Living

The mourners arrived before the death. Every one of them knows her name.

Seren Holt is hired to lead a memorial at Wick Gate Lodge. The supposed deceased has supplied his own speech, the family refuses to name him and figures gather beyond the entrance glass, mouthing private things about Seren that no client should know.

Before the ceremony, two women come to the gate with a warning: do not welcome anyone through. Seren is ready to dismiss them until one figure speaks in the voice of the brother she could not save—and asks her to complete one simple invitation.

Two houses have lost their hunger. The last has learned to make an offer. Seren can open the door to the person she misses most, or believe the women who have already paid for a miracle and help them stop it leaving.

Story focusAn impossible funeral • the last invitation • closing the shared haunting.
Place in the seriesSeren has to decide between the person she misses most and the women who warn her not to let anyone through.

Cover collection

The Fenreach Hauntings

Cover of The House Eats Last
The House Eats Last
Cover of Every Bed a Grave
Every Bed a Grave
Cover of Never Open for the Living
Never Open for the Living

The promise beyond book one

Reasons to keep reading

  • Dinner, sleep and a knock at the door become distinct fear mechanisms.
  • Three women with different emotional vulnerabilities and active choices.
  • Connected standalone structure with a complete shared supernatural resolution.

A world with room to grow

The Fenreach Hauntings is complete in three books. Further novels can follow the survivors confronting unrelated hauntings with different rules; the original presence stays destroyed. An author can keep this as a finite trilogy without leaving commercial cliffhangers unresolved.

Series overview

Set one more place. Make up the spare bed. Open the door when somebody knocks. The houses ask for so little at first. Across three connected horror novels, three women discover the difference between welcoming the dead and feeding something that has learned to wear their faces.

What you get with this pack

  • Three completed booksDeveloped from the pack you choose.
  • Editing and human proofreadingFor every manuscript.
  • Three coordinated coversA recognisable identity across the series.
  • Blurbs and Amazon metadataFor all three titles.
  • A+ contentTo showcase your books on their Amazon pages.

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This pack has been sold. Each pack is only sold once.
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$235 per book · Save $75

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Each pack is only sold once.

Until 3 December: your concept comes with two On-Demand classes of your choice and six TropeSmith Maps.

Paid in full to reserve your slot · not refundable · free revision against your brief · Terms · Prices are in US dollars; Stripe may show your local currency at checkout · processed by PlotProse (The Coral Hart Group)